The incredibly shrinking Great Lakes

September 15, 2010 - 06:35 — glbm

Southern Canada’s fresh water supply is dropping on average by an amount that equals 1.4 million Olympic-size swimming pools or about the volume of Lake St. Clair a year, a Statistics Canada study has found. The first study of its kind that spans 34 years should be a wake-up call for Canadians who take water resources for granted and are “incredibly wasteful,” Brian Branfireun, a University of Western Ontario biology professor who specializes in water resources, said Tuesday.

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